Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exodus. Brigham spellbound the leaderless city, seized command, sold the Mormon temple to a French Communist, led his people a dire trek westward to escape U. S. jurisdiction. By the time they reached Utah, the U. S. had taken that territory from Mexico, but Brigham settled there notwithstanding...
Thus closed the tactical exercises. The fleet has yet ahead of it various practices, before a great part of it churns its wakes westward and south ward to Australia and New Zealand...
...boat-base at Etah, Greenland, MacMillan will explore the ice-gap of Northern Greenland, examining and mapping the interior from the air as it has never been possible to do afoot; and from an air-base on the upper tip of Axel Heiberg Land will fly westward in search of the dubious Crocker Land...
...region of totality, the observer should turn his eyes westward along the earth. He must be careful not to have looked at the sun too much even through smoked glasses, or he will be unable to see the most important developments. Suddenly sweeping in from the West at great speed* will come the great shadow. Without waiting for it to arrive, he should turn to the sun. It will be totally eclipsed...
...jump has now broken the record of safety. Clarence O. Gilbert, a onetime flying Army sergeant, was in the Air Mail pilot's reserve and was pressed into service during the holiday rush. He flew away from May wood Field, Chicago, at 7:10 one evening and, sailing westward, encountered a blinding snowstorm near Kaneville, Ill. His motor failed. A pilot under such conditions is helpless. He cannot tell where there is a spot to land; he cannot guess whether the earth is thousands of feet away or grazing the wheels of his landing carriage. Sergeant Gilbert, moreover...